Nevermore 2013

I look forward to the Nevermore Film Festival every year. This year it has fallen on the weekend I am changing shifts from 8hrs/day 5 days /week to 12 hour shifts on the weekend and a 6 hour evening on Wednesday. So, instead of going on Saturday and Sunday, I have shifted my days.

I don’t go see the retro stuff at the Carolina theater. If I can get it from Netflix and watch it at home, I’m not paying $9/ticket to see it in a theater. So, the single old movie on the list is an automatic skip. After that, it’s a question of figuring out what I can fit into the time I have.

Boys Village (Germany, 22 minutes) a Sixth Sense style of ghost story with an ending that isn’t telegraphed.

Baby-Sitting (France, 20 minutes) badly made, poorly written.

I’m Dead (Italy, 17 minutes} Surprising. It looked liked a straight up slasher story but the last 5 minutes turned everything around and changed very thing you had seen earlier.

The Other Side(England, 20 minutes) an English slasher in the Welsh countryside. Not many surprises by a lot of jumps

Vadim(Austria, 17 minutes) Really didn’t have much new, but it did make me jump more than once.

John Dies at the End was hilarious and existential and very entertaining. There is a book available. I have tweeted to the writer asking if the book or the script came first. I am not interested in reading an expansion of the script, but might be interested in an original novel.

ABCs of Death This was a fun anthology film. For all practical purposes, it was a collection of shorts that was packaged as a single thing because of the overarching theme. Some of the letters were obvious and some were a little bit of a stretch. In particular, 2 Japanese directors whose letters worked in Japanese, but not in the English translation. The shorts DID work, though. Some were surreal, some were stories. Some were funny, some were terrifying. If you like shorts and if you like monsters, this is worth the time.

The Stolen (Canada, 6 minutes) Is a very familiar fairy tale with no surprises.

Take That (USA, 14 minutes) Buddy sets his PW friend up with a hooker. Things do not go as planned. Fun.

Found in Time was the second actual feature length film we saw this year. I loved it. It is an existential time loop story. Anansi is a happiness trigger for me. Filmmakers that use him usually make stories I’m going to like. I got to talk to the writer/director/producer and I’m following the FB page so I’ll know when it is available to buy a copy.